In Which We Return Home
Dec. 31st, 2024 11:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutBreakfast at the hotel, and then lunch at Hen and Hog again. Very tasty. I tipped well enough that the server we had yesterday pulled my sister out of the line and seated her immediately. Go us. I need to remember to bring more smaller bills (fives, probably) for handing to the valet when doing in-and-out at the hotel. I didn’t have enough. I mean, I had enough to get the level of service I like, but I felt mildly guilty about not having that amount every time.
We returned the rental car, and then hung out in a concourse because the gate area was too warm. A. and I split chicken fingers from Steak and Shake. That was fine. I also got a chocolate muffin from Plane Box for A.
Flight home, thank goddess, was uneventful and on time. It was mid 40s, so no ice or anything going home. No traffic, because we were driving home after 10 pm on NYE so everyone was where they intended to be for the next hour or so.
We opened packages and mail, but I did not start laundry. I mostly unpacked altho there will be more to do tomorrow.
This is the first trip I’ve been on, maybe ever, where I didn’t come home debugging something that went horribly wrong on the trip. Other than that first flight — and I don’t really know what I could have done differently there — it was smooth and pleasant the entire time, which is completely astonishing to me. I am grateful. Obviously, there are things I will modify (I really need to take the warm PJ / loungewear packing problem much more seriously, because I save space by not bringing them and then I buy them and have to solve the space problem on the way home), but they are minor and it’s less a matter of fixing something and more a minor refinement of packing. Not a single major interpersonal conflict. Soooo delightful.
Also! I remembered to ask my nieces and sister if they want to do RavenCon this year and it’s a go!
We returned the rental car, and then hung out in a concourse because the gate area was too warm. A. and I split chicken fingers from Steak and Shake. That was fine. I also got a chocolate muffin from Plane Box for A.
Flight home, thank goddess, was uneventful and on time. It was mid 40s, so no ice or anything going home. No traffic, because we were driving home after 10 pm on NYE so everyone was where they intended to be for the next hour or so.
We opened packages and mail, but I did not start laundry. I mostly unpacked altho there will be more to do tomorrow.
This is the first trip I’ve been on, maybe ever, where I didn’t come home debugging something that went horribly wrong on the trip. Other than that first flight — and I don’t really know what I could have done differently there — it was smooth and pleasant the entire time, which is completely astonishing to me. I am grateful. Obviously, there are things I will modify (I really need to take the warm PJ / loungewear packing problem much more seriously, because I save space by not bringing them and then I buy them and have to solve the space problem on the way home), but they are minor and it’s less a matter of fixing something and more a minor refinement of packing. Not a single major interpersonal conflict. Soooo delightful.
Also! I remembered to ask my nieces and sister if they want to do RavenCon this year and it’s a go!